Services

Sunday ZOOM Service: “Huddled Masses and Wretched Refuse.” 

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, but it’s always been a nation of immigrant bashers. Rob Schorman, Hopedale friend and retired historian, will explain why today’s controversies over immigration are nothing new. Service Leader: Patty Klingenberg.

Sunday ZOOM Service: “Reflections of the Trial of Heather Cho.” 

December 5th marks the seventh anniversary of the incident called “Nutgate” by the media.  On this date in 2014, the Vice President of Korean Airlines, Heather Cho, demanded that the plane return to the gate at Kennedy Airport after the airline attendant served her nuts still in the bag and not on a plate.  The incident … Continued

Sunday ZOOM Service – “Stories That Shape Us.”

Do you have a story that you return to over and over? What stories do we hold deeply in our hearts and allow to shape us? Have you ever made a choice or a change based on one of your dear stories? How do we choose these stories? Join Genevieve O’Malley Knight for an exploration … Continued

Sunday ZOOM Service – (Hallowe’en!) “What Am I Scared Of?”

After service leader Doris Bergen briefly discusses the role being scared may play in our positive (or negative) responses to life, participants will be invited to briefly share personal scary thoughts and how they cope with them to make their lives more resilient and productive. The purpose of this service is to help us be … Continued

Sunday ZOOM Service – The Cooperative Model

Please join Carla Blackmar, board member of the MOON cooperative; to discuss the ways producer, consumer, and worker cooperatives can help build thriving communities. She will present three types of cooperative economic structures, and provide local examples of how cooperatives prioritize people over profit. Service leader: Patty Klingenberg

Sunday ZOOM Service – On Growing Older:  It’s Better Than the Alternative.

Taking ideas from personal experience, books, and the comics, service leader Linda Amspaugh will explore the process of growing older.  What do you have to look forward to?  How do “old people” cope?  Are there advantages in being the oldest one in the room?  Are there connections between growing older and our Principles and Traditions?  … Continued

Sunday ZOOM Service – Sex and Gender and our Principles.

Sex and gender are not the same thing, and both of them exist on a spectrum. During LGBT History month, on the day before Coming Out Day, service leader Jennifer Blue will lead us in a discussion of sex and gender and sexuality, and how understanding these concepts ties to our principles.